Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles

MonticelloApr. 27. 95.

I am become more firmly fixt to the glebe. if you visit me as a farmer, it must be
as a condisciple: for I am but a learner; an eager one indeed but yet desperate, being too old now
to learn a new art. however I am as much delighted & occupied with it as if I was
the greatest adept.